Boot Camp Beta Expiring

[theman]

How is the upgrade to leopard going to work for people using bootcamp? i currently have a 30gb windows partition on my MBP. do i just format my os x partition and install leopard on it? but how do i update boot camp?

 

[LMO]

It will stop working. Anyone wanting to boot into Windows will have to buy Leopard.

Just to be clear: Boot Camp is not involved when you boot into Windows. It is used only for installation.

 

[TBi]

How is the upgrade to leopard going to work for people using bootcamp? i currently have a 30gb windows partition on my MBP. do i just format my os x partition and install leopard on it? but how do i update boot camp?

Leopard will update your previous OSX install and leave windows alone. You can then update windows with your new bootcamp driver cd that you'll burn in leopard (or it might come with the drivers on the DVD).

Just to be clear: Boot Camp is not involved when you boot into Windows. It is used only for installation.

Well technically it's only involved in making the partition that you install too, not actually the install itself.

 

[LMO]

Well technically it's only involved in making the partition that you install too, not actually the install itself.

More precisely Boot Camp makes the partition, initiates the Windows install, and provides the drivers to complete the Windows installation.

 

[TBi]

More precisely Boot Camp makes the partition, initiates the Windows install, and provides the drivers to complete the Windows installation.

Wrong on all three counts.

1.
Bootcamp doesn't make the partition. A built in command line tool does. Bootcamp is just a nice GUI for it.

2.
Boot camp does not initiate the windows install, it just gives you a nice GUI to tell OSX to boot to the windows install disk. You can do this manually by holding option (alt) on boot up or by using the start up disk pref pane.

3.
The drivers are not needed to complete the windows installation. Windows will install fine with out them. You will have some limited functionality though. However thankfully these drivers can be separated from boot camp and installed by hand if needed.

So to be concise. Boot camp is just a set of pretty GUI's do to something that anyone can do with a little time and patience. It is NOT needed.

Please stop spreading false information...

EDIT: When you stop to think about it, if bootcamp was so necessary to install another OS then technically you should not be able to install Linux on a Mac because there are no bootcamp drivers for it.

 

[Queso]

EDIT: When you stop to think about it, if bootcamp was so necessary to install another OS then technically you should not be able to install Linux on a Mac because there are no bootcamp drivers for it.

Not necessarily. The Linux kernel was patched to work with EFI so it would run on the Itanium chip. That code has now been included in the x86 versions.

 

[TBi]

Not necessarily. The Linux kernel was patched to work with EFI so it would run on the Itanium chip. That code has now been included in the x86 versions.

Yes but it will also use the virtual BIOS that apple implemented in firmware.

It is easy to prove i am right though. If you have a Mac Pro or a MacBook. Take out all the harddrives in it and put in a blank drive. Boot from the windows CD by holding option on boot up and you can install it without ever, and i mean ever, using bootcamp.